I was very tempted by that game, I love this nation and have been wanting to play it in MP for awhile..... But I'm trying to slim down my roster a little (currently back down to 8 games atm, woo?), and it's not proving easy. And as I mentioned before, I haven't gotten my timing down for the transition to later game stuff..... in SP tests so far, getting my Blood started has been especially slow for some reason. (largely due to dealing with overzealous AI neighbors, surely, but still)
As far as Order/Misf vs Turmoil/Luck - I'll let one thing out of the bag - my current concept build uses 2Death AND 2Drain, so Misf is certainly out of the question, for me at least.
But it's a tricky build, to say the least. I think that while Ulm can survive through leaner times than some nations, that it doesn't truly thrive unless it can afford to build a lot. I'd argue that while you aren't going to be pumping out massive amounts of infantry all game, it's unwise to just ignore the "Steel Tide", and thus without Production scales, you probably want to very much maximize your castle construction, so you are supplanting your need for resources/castle, with a need for gold/turn to optimize your opportunity to use your national troops as much as necessary.
I suppose that since my Shinuyama SP that I was fooling around with just got ruined by an AI casting BoT, I can get around to that promised test of primarily using Rangers for the early game. But honestly, I would feel more comfortable facing a human player that was relying almost entirely on Rangers, than a human who had large amounts of Ulm's heavy infantry. I mean, you'll need foot troops all game for some things, unless you intend to utilize thugs with Gate Cleavers to take down gates, and other thugs who somehow manage to get full immunities so your enemy can't just send a few Frozen Heart (et al) spammers to ruin your entire military capacity.
Re: LA Ulm: Goths Gone Wild! or, Flying Immortal Vampire Harbingers of Doooooooom!
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